Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Rooney

Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.

Of all the tall tales, I think my favorite is the one about Eli Whitney and the interchangeable parts.

Bob Holthus

I'm very happy with the draw. If Lawyer Ron could win this, he'd be one of the favorites for the Kentucky Derby. It's your lifelong dream.

Irish Proverb

Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.

Irwin Cohen

Purchases aren't so much 'needs-driven', ... People say, 'I want it.'

Irene Cara

The rumors emanated from people who are in a position of power.

Ed Wade

I've talked to players before about - you can't turn this around. It has to be about the fans. People have a right to boo.

Sally Thompson

I've seen people from Mississippi trying to get back home.

Charlie Green

I've never seen this like this before, people are not so much worried about the price, just getting the fuel.

Tom Burns

I've never seen the people who own DRS.

Karen Miller

It was too complicated for people to get.

Janet Belsky

These shows are so right psychologically they have to do people a lot of good.

Christy Turlington

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

Henry David Thoreau

Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.

Robert Sheckley

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

William Herschel

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

William Blake

Execution is the chariot of genius.

Xenophanes

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.

Ronald Reagan

I am not a scientist.

William Osler

The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.

Friedrich Engels

Life is the mode of action of proteins.

Louis Pasteur

If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies...

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.